Research News By Kate O’Neill Published Research —Continued from page 33 • Derek Sant’Angelo, PhD, Harold L. Paz, MD, Endowed Professor of Developmental Biology, professor of pediatrics, and chief, division of developmental biology, Child Health Institute of New Jersey, a five-year, $1,987,500 R01 grant for “Contribution of Innate-like Tregs for Preventing Tissue Inflammation.” Lisa Denzin, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics, is a coinvestigator. • Clifford Weisel, PhD, professor of environmental and occupational medicine, a five-year, $1,558,265 competitive renewal training grant for the Joint Graduate Program in Exposure Science. • Donald Winkelmann, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, a four-year $2,024,151 multi-PI R01 grant to study “Structural, Biochemical, and Mechanical Effects of Myosin Cardiomyopathy Mutations.” Grants of $1 million or more from other funding sources including: Deborah M. Spitalnik, PhD, professor of pediatrics and executive director, Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities: • a five-year, $2.2 million Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disorders (LEND) Training Program grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. The following is a representative sample of articles by Robert Wood Johnson Medical School researchers recently published in leading biomedical journals: • Jeffrey Carson, MD, the Richard C. Reynolds professor of medicine, and provost, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, was first author of “Clinical Practice Guidelines from the AABB Red Blood Cell Transfusion Thresholds and Storage,” published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association October 12, 2016. • Matthew P. Deek, MD ’16, was first author of “Prognostic Impact of Missed Chemotherapy Doses during Chemoradiation Therapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer,” published in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology June 17, 2016. (Epub ahead of print.) Salma K. Jabbour, MD, associate professor of radiation oncology, was senior author. • Justin M. Drake, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, was first author of “Phosphoproteome Integration Reveals Patient-Specific Networks in Prostate Cancer,” published in Cell August 3, 2016:pii:S0092‒8674(16) 30913‒30918. (Epub ahead of print.) • Javier Escobar, MD, professor of psychiatry and family medicine and associate dean for global health, was senior author of “Personality Disorders in the Basque Region of Spain: Applicability of DSM-5’s Alternative Criteria for Personality Disorders,” published in the American Journal of Psychiatry August 1, 2016:173(8): 769‒770. • Jyoti Malhotra, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, was first author of “Association of Increased Cancer Risk with Heart Failure,” published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology July 19, 2016:68(3):272‒273. • Vikas Nanda, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and resident member, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, was senior author of “Dissecting Electrostatic Contributions to Folding and Self-Assembly Using Designed Multicomponent Peptide Systems,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society April 6, 2016:138(13):4362‒4367. • Kathleen W. Scotto, PhD, professor of pharmacology and resident member, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, was senior author of “A Role for Abcg2 Beyond Drug Transport: Regulation of Autophagy,” published in Autophagy May 3, 2016:12(5): 737‒751. • Mark N. Stein, MD, associate professor of medicine, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and Thomas L. Jang, MD, MPH, assistant professor of surgery, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, were coauthors of “Striving toward a Cure for Prostate Cancer,” published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology June 20, 2016:34(18):2075‒2078. 34 Robert Wood Johnson I MEDICINE